[Python-Dev] Matrix product (original) (raw)

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Aug 2 01:31:07 CEST 2008


Terry Reedy wrote:

That said, I am curious what working scientists using Python think.

Well, we'll let you know more after SciPy '08, but I suspect the answer is that they just want one teensy little wafer-thin operator to do matrix multiplication on numpy arrays or their favorite matrix object. I don't think there are many scientists/engineers/whatnot who want to double the number of operators to learn or who care if the matmult operator works on lists of lists or anything else in the standard library.

-- Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco



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